Given today's political environment, how important is it for a candidate to receive the endorsement from the AFL-CIO?
The AFL-CIO usually backs candidates who win and incumbents. For them to back McCusker speaks volumes about what they think of the incumbents running for mayor in the City of Lackawanna. Considering all the politicians, ex politicians, former mayors and the insiders backing Szymanski I would say that this is BIG since all that clout still didn't do nothing for him.
http://www.seiu.org/a/ourunion/resea...nd-figures.php
what do you think of this link?
Mr. McCusker has earned the backing of the Republican and Independant parties, this in itself is a great thing seeing that Mr. McCusker is a life long Democrat. These two parties evidently could see beyond a title or a lable and see who actually was the best candidate for Mayor. They can see that no one including what we will call the Lackawanna Democrats (seeing how they have their own set of self serving standards) will run Mr. McCusker or tell him which way to go on issues. They know that he will do what he thinks is best for both Lackawanna residents and business's. The Lackawanna Democrats who selected and nominated one of their own is going to try and confuse people by saying oh look Mr. McCusker is running as a Republican or an Independant how can any Democrat in good faith vote for him. This is where the importance of the AFL-CIO endorsement comes into play, it basically states that one of the largest union associatiions in Western New York recognizes Mr. McCusker as a Democrat and as a person who wants to see people make a living wage. Therefore registered Democrats can go into the polling booth and vote this man as their next Mayor and not feel as if they did something against party lines. The way I like to look at it is the line that Mr. McCusker is running on and will win on is the Lackawannian Line.
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